{"value"=>"<p>These scrapbooks (1900-1943) are about African American life in both New York City and New York state and contain clippings and ephemera from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. The clippings in these scrapbooks cover a wide range of topics, including discrimination in both hiring and the workplace, profiles of financially successful African Americans, obituaries, job opportunities, awards won by African American students and workers, Negro Week at the 1940 World's Fair, modern \"slave markets\" in the Bronx, protests regarding school discrimination, and the struggle for school integration in Hillburn, New York.</p>"}